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Warriors' win over Knights serves as rugby league's farewell to Showgrounds
2025-05-20 13:45:05| Spiritual Career Counseling
The home of rugby league for Canterbury Rugby League, and I remember the two fields joining together at, at both ends, sharing the in-goal. If it is the last game of rugby league here, [itll] be sad, said Jones.Jones thoughts are echoed by his mentor and former coach Frank Endacott. Few have memories of the park that are as long or as fond as Endacotts. I remember playing on that park as a 19-year-old right through to first grade over many decades. By gee, weve got some great memories of that park. Its going to be sorely missed, said Endacott. AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.Rugby League Park in Addington held its first match in 1912 and the code remained there for 100 years. The Showgrounds was the spiritual home of the game in Canterbury until it was transformed into the citys temporary post-quake stadium hosting the Crusaders, All Blacks, Warriors, Kiwis and some of the biggest names in entertainment. It wasnt as temporary as many had hoped and rugby league had t...
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In The Northern Ireland Period Thriller '71,' No One Dies Well
2025-05-20 11:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
The film is about an English private who is cut off from his unit in the middle of a riot in Belfast in 1971. It's a conventional and smashingly good chase melodrama, but it's also a tragedy. DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The streets of Northern Ireland in 1971 are the setting for the new film "'71," in which Jack O'Connell, best known for his starring role in "Unbroken," plays an English soldier cut off from his unit in the middle of a riot. Film critic David Edelstein has this review.DAVID EDELSTEIN, BYLINE: The most powerful thing about the Belfast, Northern Ireland, period thriller "'71" is that no one dies well. In outline, this is a conventional and a smashingly good chase melodrama. But it's also a tragedy, from the first face-off between the British army and a mob of Catholic men, women and children who get in the soldiers' faces and draw first blood, to the heart-stopping climax in a ruined pub. By then, the protagonist Gary Hook, wounded British private, trapped behin...
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'71 review: a visceral reminder of dark days
2025-05-20 11:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
'71 Director: Yann DemangeCert: 15AGenre: DramaStarring: Jack O'Connell, Sean Harris, Sam Reid, Charlie Murphy, Paul Anderson, Killian Scott, David WilmotRunning Time: 1 hr 39 minsThere exists a photograph of your reviewer all purple flares and pudding-bowl hair standing merrily beneath a huge wooden 71 positioned near the Botanic Gardens in south Belfast. For reasons that should be apparent, the optimistic Ulster 71 Expo, conceived to celebrate 50 years of the Northern Irish statelet, failed miserably to define the era.There is certainly no mention of it in Yann Demanges breakneck thriller set two miles west of the giant digits. This is a heightened version of the bloodied-parka Belfast we soaked up throughout decades of miserable news reports.Film-makers have rarely dared to use the Troubles as a backdrop to any sort of mainstream entertainment. You cannot, after all, move through those waters without picking up inconvenient political residue in every exposed crevice...
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